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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person by sumedh on Thursday March 30, 2017 @05:09AM (#13993914)
> 90% of people are strapped into financial obligations and have families.

So they have to prioritise what is important, if they feel that starting a business is more important, they will avoid getting financial obligations and starting a family.

This is also part of the overall risks, you might be better off just being an employee with a normal life instead of being a failed entrepreneur.

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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person by andrepd on Thursday March 30, 2017 @06:52AM (#13994309)
They don't have to choose to prioritise, they don't have a choice! Which brings your entire argument down.
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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person by sumedh on Thursday March 30, 2017 @07:22AM (#13994436)
If you are going to count poor people then I agree most of them dont have a choice, I am talking about people who visit HN.
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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person by andrepd on Thursday March 30, 2017 @11:17AM (#13996100)
Hacker News gets about 300K unique visitors per month. That's ~0.0042% of the world population. Hardly a representative sample to make those kinds of ridiculous statements.
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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person by sumedh on Friday March 31, 2017 @07:49AM (#14002815)
The reason I am talking about HN demographics is because we are on HN.
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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person by viuduib on Thursday March 30, 2017 @06:58AM (#13994348)
wait, didn't you time-travel in your argument ? You said if you feel like starting a business, go back in time and not have a family or take-on debt - may as well say they should have been born into a rich family with a good education, contacts and an inheritance to gamble with
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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person by sumedh on Thursday March 30, 2017 @07:28AM (#13994456)
If you are young and your inner voice is telling to work on your idea then it's better not to take debt like a house loan or an expensive car loan. Similarly tell your partner to wait for marriage/kids.

Of Course a rich kid won't have to do these sacrifices but the rich kid will probably not have the same intensity and drive as the middle class person who wants to succeed.

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